of gover Passports, granted
leave o
the Col. Measure absence to M.
Rienarcher : it would be
Convenient that such
leave should
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Copy
Sir,
2210375/513
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
8th September 1855:
I beg to ask of your Excellency the
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favor to bring to the notice of the Colonial
Office my application for a year's leave of absence from the date of departure of the Mail Steamer in March or April of the
ensuing year.
It is within your Excellency's knowledge that at the commencement of this summer I applied for leave to proceed home, but it was shown that my absence then would be most inconvenient; and at your Excellency's
His Excellency
Sir John Bowring, Knt, LL.D.,
Governor and Commander in Chief
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